Digital Ethics

Wholeness requires personal development of emotional intelligence so we will risk the personal authenticity needed for survival in complexity.

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The bereaved mother still saw the ads after sharing news of her loss on the site and changing her settings.

Automated systems take into account thousands of variables to make decisions that affect our lives. People are calling for more transparency in AI, but not everyone agrees on what constitutes a fair explanation.

Historian Yuval Noah Harari explains why prepping for our future has nothing to do with learning code or building a bunker.

Netflix says it does not track users' race or ethnicity. But in customizing promotions based on users' past viewing history, it can achieve a similar effect.

This is the first of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s special series on digital rights. To illustrate the complexity of digital…

Humans have evolved a number of strategies to help us cope with the constant overload of information. Understanding these strategies can help us conduct better UX research resulting in more accurate observations, and design User Interfaces that are easier to use and require less mental effort

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]

Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions.

This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

With these five tips couched in cutting-edge science, you can finally go toe-to-toe with crazy Uncle Bob.

The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.

The golden age of menstrual surveillance is great for men, marketers, and medical companies.

Faster is Different

It’s been two tumultuous years. Still, it’s highly unlikely we’ve witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, spotted by some users on Monday, may offer a clue as to what that moment could look like. In this case, it’s a tool that prompts users to comment on live video using algorithmically-generated text or […]

Or, why a social scientist could be the most important person on your product team

As the tools for self-tracking have improved, and access to research publications and medical grade instrumentation has spread, QS…

The U.S. needs to stand against the surveillance state.

This week I had the great honour of being named by the RSA as the first Royal Designer for Industry for Service Design. My hope is to inspire the next generation of designers, just as the current R…

New urban design aims to influence behaviour and has been criticised as an attempt to exclude poor peopleAnti-skateboarding architecture – in pictures

Five ways to help people act on their values, no matter the context.

Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is an innovative approach to values-driven leadership development in business education and the workplace. Rather than a focus on ethical analysis, the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum focuses on ethical

A trove of internal Facebook documents was released by a British parliamentary committee as part of an investigation into misinformation and user data.

Washington State responds to a re-identification study of anonymized health records that it sells by removing fields sensitive to re-identification.

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